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first refused all food, and became so weak that it was expected 

 to die ; at length, however, it was tempted to eat, and being 

 plentifully supplied with fish, soon resumed its strength and 

 activity. With a cord tied round its leg to prevent its escape, 

 it was permitted to sport in the water ; but even with this 

 restraint, which must have very much impeded its motions, it 

 performed the motions of diving and swimming with a speed 

 that set all pursuit from a boat at defiance, affording the most 

 convincing proof that, had it been at full liberty, no fish could 

 have escaped. 



Penguins. 



The Aptenodytes, which may be called southern Penguins, 

 as they never come beyond the limits of the Southern Ocean, 

 are very numerous on the lonely isles scattered over the dreary 

 wilderness of those seas. The largest of these, the King 

 Penguin, exceeds a Goose in size. As their legs project from 

 their bodies in the same direction with their tails, they walk 

 upright ; and when a flock of them are seen moving in file, or 

 arranged along the ledges of the rocks, they appear like a 



